People following The Mediterranean Diet have a 70% greater life expectancy and an 80% higher quality of life (European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Mayo Clinic, etc.) , but only if they are living by the Mediterranean Lifestyle’s whole food version.
It’s not just about food combinations; it’s also about ensuring that you only put high-quality whole foods into your system. One of the major issues that followers of The Mediterranean Diet run into if they are in the United States is the tendency for all “healthy/organic” foods to still have some form of sweeteners, preservatives or additives still included.
First of all, these artificial products did not exist fifty or sixty years ago: artificially hydrogenated products and derivates, for example, and anything containing trans-fats. These are only modern-era additives, and while in the USA, it is supposedly compulsory from January 1st, 2006 to indicate in the labels the trans fat proportion, the USDA is still getting away with mass murder….such as with the case of pink slime, which doesn’t even have to be reported if it is included in your meat. (The USDA/FDA states that producers don’t have to let consumers know their meat contains pink slime as long as it doesn’t have more than 15% of the toxic substance.)
Avoiding chemical products is the first step to ensuring healthy living. Don’t take it from me; look at the fact that the CDC says that 75% of the American population is overweight or obese, and those numbers are rising rapidly every year…despite all of this supposedly “healthy and organic” food being sold at the grocery stores for people to buy and eat. If it’s so healthy for you…why are people still fat and suffering from diabetes and other diseases? The chemicals! The only way to avoid those chemicals is through The Mediterranean Diet.
Organic labeling doesn’t mean they don’t use non-natural. It just means the synthetics they use have been passed by the USDA as “approved natural additives”. Foods can sport the USDA/FDA label even though up to 5 percent of their ingredients are non-organic, such as with milk, juice and other products that are labeled organic when in reality they still contain government-approved synthetics…but they aren’t required to let you know about it. Kind of like with pink slime.
Want to achieve perfect health and wellness and a toned, sexy body? Stop relying on a broken system that tells you what food is or isn’t healthy and lies to you about the ingredients contained within. Want the best whole foods on the planet? Start planting a garden and harvesting your own crops so that you can ensure your produce is 100% chemical and additive free. Stop buying things that have a label on them and instead go straight to your local farmers and buy food there if you don’t have access to it at the supermarkets.
But whatever you do, stop trusting in “organic” labels that supposedly mean the food is healthy but nevertheless have resulted in a 75% and rising number of overweight and sickly statistics.
You can read the whole article at http://www.themediterraneanlifestyle.com/2012/07/03/whole-foods-via-the-mediterranean-diet-are-best/
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